Posts Tagged ‘balance’

There is a difference between a job description and what a person should be spending their time doing. A job description is a tool used for hiring and training, so we know who to look for and what skill sets they have or need to acquire to fill their position. But the real question is,…

All my problems are in the past or the future. Very rarely are they in this exact moment. Because of this, it is easy to live in the past thinking about what I should have said or what I should have done. It is equally as easy to live in the future. What does the…

You have some areas of your life that you OWN– meaning you have them down. Then, there are other areas where you struggle. You may have great health, but your business life suffers. You may have work or business down, but you struggle with your relationship with your spouse. Maybe your relationship with your wife…

My family and I are on yet another trip. It’s amazing to me the life we get to live. I read recently that either Life is the rider and you are the horse, or that you decide to be the rider and make Life the horse. I think life will be whichever you command it…

“I am addicted to social media. Not like the ‘Here’s a selfie of me doing nothing’ kind, but a worse kind. I’m the ‘I can’t get enough news about the news and people talking about the news’ kind. It’s destroying my intellect. I have been obsessed over the last couple months with the current…

I’ve discovered that the number one is the worst number in business. You don’t want to only have one product line or one customer. You don’t want to have only one source of revenue or be on only one network. We get ourselves in the most trouble however, when we have one employee who is over…

The purpose of your business is to support you and your lifestyle. Go back to why you started the business to begin with. What do you want? Was it to serve the community, you, your team, or some combination? What did you want your business to provide for you and your family? Back then, were you thinking about financial…

I am going to keep hammering the idea that you MUST create the life you want. You must decide and then create. If you just let it happen, then you get a “just happened to me” life. If you go out and create one, you will have the life of your dreams. You can try…

Guiding team members is a fine balance between deciding what I am responsible for and figuring out what they are responsible for. Additionally, when I’m training company leaders, it’s important they understand what their responsibilities are and what my expectations of them are. I spend a lot of time helping, training, and developing leaders because…

If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room… The one thing that I have been able to do over the last 20 years is learn how to surround myself with people truly smarter than I am. I know a lot of people talk about this, and a lot of people…